Group Conflict and Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf : Rethinking the Rentier State.
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Author / Creator: | Gengler, Justin. |
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Imprint: | Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2015. |
Description: | 1 online resource (418 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | Indiana Series in Middle East Studies Indiana series in Middle East studies. |
Subject: | |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11907765 |
ISBN: | 9780253016867 025301686X 9780253016744 0253016746 9780253016805 0253016800 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record. |
Summary: | The oil-producing states of the Arab Gulf are said to sink or swim on their capacity for political appeasement through economic redistribution. Yet, during the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring, in Bahrain and all across the Arab Gulf, ordinary citizens showed an unexpected enthusiasm for political protest directed against governments widely assumed to have co-opted their support with oil revenues. Justin Gengler draws on the first-ever mass political survey in Bahrain to demonstrate that neither is the state willing to offer all citizens the same bargain, nor are all citizens willing to ac. |
Other form: | Print version: Gengler, Justin. Group Conflict and Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf : Rethinking the Rentier State. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2015 9780253016744 |
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